The evening world. Newspaper, March 8, 1919, Page 9

a i q = aT 7 an Ti ee kc cthal iae tae avibibo WORLD, 8A7 , WHO’S WHO IN VA DEVILLE AND THE FILMS bess ics j. ‘Lightnin’ ’ Hit the Movies and New York Nearly Lost Delightful Old Bill Jones Frank Bacon Tells How He Sold Play, Then Got It Back, to Be Revised Into Season's Success. LIBERTY BOND EXEMPTION THEATRES. EXPLAINED BY TREASURY || #523" hi ag Maximum of $110,000 May Be Held “TH ST. "Wisin: Wea te te ot | Under Tax Law if Divided AL JOLSON » SINE A | in Certain Way. | 39TH i tight WASHINGTON, March &.—In answer| Oks to numerous inquiries concerning Lib- erty bond tax exemptions, the Treasury | to-day announced that a maximum of; REPUB =a PT va! Wea at ate $110.00 of Liberty bonds may be ned || MARJORIE RAMB AU by any taxpayer, with interest exempt! “THE FORTUNE TELLERS . from aur taxew and excess profits and ey) DNIc TUR cEw: a aa War profits taxes, providing tho holdings Ce? 2 Mib NIGHT WHIF . By Charles Darnton, | ge ate fA ap Sg ad a Sl 0 =A SENSAT ERE'S an interesting bit of theatrical history: “Lightnin’," the oe PLAYHOUSE x a “esa H hit of the season, missed the movies by a $750 margin. ‘his in- formation came to me in the cov of a talk with Frank Bacon,| the actor who has taken New York into his heart with his inimitable por 4. a We) trayal of Bilt Jones, The advertisements proclaim “Another Smith-Golden | - = Pe eisRuanty, = : th rer Btamnps; $10,000 of frat 14m; $30,000 of || A New Farce EP hit,” or something of the sort, but it is Bacon who has scored the hit— Z ESS NSTRAN Eo . fourth #448; $45,000 of first and second don’t forget that. In the circumstances, if you made your way behind the curtain at the: Gaiety Theatre you would expect to find Mr. Bacon in the st dressing room, wouldn't you? Well, he seemed merely in temporary pos session of it, having apparently given it up to his daughter, who acts a corey | New Offerings | man who ait Dill Jones? In aor, Bacon is es kindy aad simple wa Bui! J the Theatres| 4s and 44s, and thir 449 as to Interest | ‘wd received after Jan. 1, 1918, this exemp- rth tlon « MELTING DF MOLLY 1 on original subscription » and holding at the time of fling tax jreturn of twosthirds as many Fourth) Liberty bonds. ‘WAR RELICS T0 HELP ery ‘bongn wt ** yt, an to interest recaived after Jan nimeelf, blcnashe t 1919, but this exemption doce not fig-| ab tk, a | A, lm tm Da) leh a, ilies pre ttis Medals Made From Guns Captured | ure in ¢ urns filed for the year 1918, | jonat dramatic - fe - at Chateau-Thierry to Be ? Ty | ments for the coming week will ve t | RAK, Bacon P ° printed in The Evening World Al Given Workers. ‘ACHES AND PAINS » BILL "LiGHTNIN’?” ‘ er ‘J Monday.) BOSTON, March 8.—Orders to as-| Pete iE ——— {th of Bway. ive, semble thirty-five traintoads of war! VANDERBILT sini, id'"&" sate $38 with the OROTHY GISH, in “Boots,” 8) gBoster S D iim play by Martha Pittman, Malo en se OS Uieon Will be the chief feature at tne} Rialto the coming week, “Duets” ts described as a love story with Bol #hevist variations. Miss Gish plays a siavey in a London lodging house, with a boarder and a mysterious | woman in the plot. It happens that} Jehn Cort's musical comedy pro- the boarder is a secret service man | ction “Flo-Flo” will be the attrac Allied and German armies. | se naat a ac! ie a a e bin} tion at the Bronx Opera House. | on the trail of the woman. ‘The bili | ter REFERENDUM, JERSEY PLAN, | Mr. Campbell, who has been Die| Put it on freely. Don't rub it in ; will also include Mr. and Mra. Sidney Flo" is concerned with an inter- PPoaatligys, seated et ‘i Moo Fi Allied War| Just let it penetrate naturally, What a Drew in a screen comedy cate ah SLE HUR AMEE BRE ane Cotas FOR SUNDAY AM AMUSEMENTS | =» sition, said the French Govern. | sense of soothing relief soon follows! the Niaiig: MawaN | icons oe G8, BERD F Ms | My ‘FLO-FLO” TO BE SEEN AT BRONX OPERA HOUSE ctory Loan campaign encaremeeic have beon received by Chester I , * Campbell of this city, he ann 1 You'll find Sloan's Liniment LITTLE B |to-day, The collections will include | softens the severe ae tanks, big guns, machine guna, aire| rheumatic ache, |planes and other devices used “Once a Mason, or eet ALICE BRADY “ ad nd 4a and 4%, third and fourth 44« reasury certifates or War, Ravines || BLOU a, a cD ‘ has included Mt had turned over to him for this) aches, stiffness, soreness a! eet Ri Fotatad Ang Jere Garwoot aad) | Spanish ¢ stoninale y Purpose All the relics ent to this era muscles, strained — sinews Oa rT musical numb 4 bh 1} \ ( Vv f * | be chs’ pan’ | s—% | mother, i n and sher-| Bill Woul lovies, GAMes }country in eare of the French High| back “ericks"—those ailments can’t tes lock tora of th ands in State on Commission. ‘The Ttallan. Belgian |fight off the relieving qualities of |} 58% Bend u ARONSON BENEFIT Srtisith and British Governments also wilt) Sloan's. Liniment, sss crue rene FRIENOLY ENE MIE TO HAVE MANY STARS : ag y ‘ ee ete atts aes us| Se sg TUUTONF dore| * man muna it Chatenu-Thierry will be AailC joan ae awarded by the Treasury Depart. Seat ena mont to all Liberty Loan workers and} Who participate actively in the com Victory Liberty - campaign ON, N. Jy March nday amuserur ate are preparing to support t Jintroduced by Assemblyman Jame Mack, Hyland of Newark to legalize The Rudolph Aronson Henefit for| ea ss relatives of the deceased manager and | jot, Armand Lt composer, will be given at the Astor | tock and Willi Theatre to-morrow night. Ed Wynn | pbonaber al. will be the master of ceremonies, and | PROCTOR VAU. DES ILLE tion plet In the bill is a there will be a brief opening address | AND PICTURE PLAYS i Vision which provides for a referen- |The medal is about the size of a hi by Wilton Lackaye. Some of the reas | jdum_ by whietr exc community may vr. On one side yl Fe re | - | eo ow ne Ia yall apply in usury Hulldin tures will be George M. Cohan and| pyoctor's Fifth Avenue Theatre will | {eo Ran if e Some palin et rm Liverty Loan," | CONCERTS AND MUBIG, 7 3 ayy 64 ” + William Collier in song and dance;! pegin the week with Jim. Hussy, sipecp of FRANK BACON IN DELIGTFUL “OLD BILL” ROLE, |John Philip Sousa, who will conduct] pred g. Aruathe Dora Ililton. V Re rene , HILADELPHIA |the Rudolph Aronson Victory Maren; | !Ted J. Ardath, Dora Hilton, The proposition of a more libera MEOW UGE Bld Ht tabs pu (8 Hod BIN" V-aaked, Wunder Kan Malte in on Hurley and Hanley, Mabel Bur nday in New Jersey has been be | the tenta episode of Houdini’s picture fore the Lagisigture for several years |play, “The Master Mystery.” With With the brecl the change of bill on Thursday will|the opposition to lex be J, C. Mack, Dolly Kay, Holbrook’s | the $ lime sketches; Nora B: “Oh, shout twenty 4 "he replied, as he settled back into his) tinard in a burlesqu chair with a reminiscent look and stroked his gray hair. “Bill,” he cor- |cony scene from * tinued, “is really a combination of a lot of chaps I've k@wn. Long before : Pop } thought of going on the stage Lhere wes a quaint, shiftiess old fellow Tom Brown's Clown ari Cora] Cireus, Hazel Monroo and photo) amuseme bts;‘bave then eo e. wir pi % + tow the m , ele. | Tre e dG ‘red c plays. At Proctor's d Street Thea-|tney fad a char to w in Vallejo; Californta, who was’ the agent for the San Francisco Chrontele. Purtua Man and Golden; ‘Frederick | Pov te Frankie. Heath Mr. and | ~ORCHESTRA Pata dow year of —_ One day he said to me: ‘I to go down and traighte n out things for |i stoonshi Beatrice Herford in a| sea 4 fone , 7 rtf Teper ang Unileran tee aval Apecentacd Mike De Young. Of 1 realized he wouldn't have a chance of get-|manologue, Beulah Dale and Irving | the bill will include Baron's Midget} WASHINGTON, March §.—Uniform —) ing to the editor he talked about, but he camo back in a day or two and| Fisher. The entertainment will cone! Horses, “Magier and Thompson, | resembling those worn by the res Py i) Wit M ee | BRUNUS a ; 7 clude ‘wi elve American compos- odliee reported: ‘Well, I certainly gave De Young hell, and I think I've got bim | oe." Gach playing his favorite Sone George Felix and To [navy se lore, but having distinct POMEDY | on the right track.” sition PA ‘4 +1 ay en design r the at 100% HUMAN *) “Then ai Napa there was an old fellow who dignified his position in " | THE PROBATION WIFE ; prer , b teainine h slew ‘& Evianger's New Musical Comedy, ‘i pub'ic life by calling himself ‘Street Commissioner. As a matter of fact, | BILLS AT NEW YORK | RIVOL, “REEN PLAY)|\arious school shina "th ; idered anchor un eld on the blows 1 ¢ Jconsists of an ¢ VELVET LADY ATOP NEW sraoan Toeae siti esata attraction | der the nations » Rivoli will have Norma Talmadge | on collar and cu The Probation Wife.” ‘The play tells the story of a girl in a gay cafe. | TWO ENTIRELY DIFFERENT SHOWS Sunday: Bert Lytell in “The Blina|TM® Place im raided and the girl gous | mmm La Weis yi A h Man's Byes." Monday: Henry Fi. Wal. | tree years In the reformatory. ‘There COHAN & HARRIS \; Hh Mica SOMEBODY “iweeriiedae which I have put into ‘Lightin smother, and r've|thill i “The Falae Faces." Tucsday; |, caeape and w chance meeting THE ROYAL NV AGABOND a 1a “It was my good luck to meet one Bill Jones after another, an Ve | Phomas Santschi in “The Railroader," Se 7 1 sett. | wy A COHANIZED OPERA COMIQUE. Casino |) tried to make the most of th — Mis Wednesday Gladys Brockwell in| Othe i THEA, Tae W, OW “The original Bill, as near as I can get to him, was an uncle of mine,|“~he Forbidden Room,” Thursday; |SPerts’ in nation ul MRS.1 ISKE. te Ae 3 Menez Mis . who just joafed about the country. He wasn't altogether lazy, for his| Harold nnett comedy cal ‘leet vRic 3 ere ra 71 wives. at om Ch x} y he swept the place, one street after another, He was nothing more than| AND AMERICAN THEATRES} the town janitor. But he had a soul above his station. ‘This is pretty hot! ——. ' work you're doing,’ I remarked, for it was very hot in the valley. ‘Oh, yes,'| | ‘The film attractions at Loew's New| ‘ he replied, ‘except for the job I had five or six years ago, when I drove a| York Theatre and Roof will be Norma the*prairie.’ At that time I wasn’t in the theatrical |Talmadge in “The Probation Wife," For its leading sor eS swarm of Lees acr business, but years afterward I realized the humorous value of the yarn AMUSEMENTS. ockwood in “The Great Ro-| More Real Fun than in and Bessie Love in “Ca all the other shows in town combined! Smithy,” the Rivoli mind was always working, but he had wonderful ability in keeping away |man lyn| programme of mui ; of the Corners," Friday; Monta And it's clean—That's why the LIBERTY bc) from actual labor, It was his good fortune to have four sisters, and he}/t .! ine Haad invialbie® Marie i asee SORTER: Columbia is crowded to capacity MATS WED, @ MAT. U E managed to pass three months of each year with one after enother of|iay° |” "| “CHEER UP, AMERICA,” every afternoon and night LEO DITRICHSTEIN NKNOWN aa i ey . Page : e vaudeville b Loew's 'VUR. 7 CING MONDAY AFTERNOON. them, Although be shunned work, as I've said, he was a remarkably ef-| On the vaudeville bill at Locw's REVUE, AT COLUMBIA Commencin AY THE MARQUIS de PRIOLA PRINCESS == ¥ ficient superintendent half of the week will be @ revue called ee ie ike Sa “Ho'd stay at our house until he began to drink more than was good|“Marcelle," Saxton and Farre!l re ‘Cheer Up, America.” a patriotic| | if ieee htc ate eet gan or: vq “ i ay would make his way to the home of another sister—and so on throughout |4tne im pletures will be Charlie |W! Pe a Attraction at the Colum ) Jka AR ts the year. He had the problem of life worked out to the last day on the|Chaplin in “A Night at the show"/bia Theatre, It was written by Will 4 L Pere am aueia! Wenge Allin’ mln poriicne ce LONGACRE Wit eE., Pat |] tans NORA BAYES ee estions—just a happy-go-lucky vagabond, He is really the Bill I am | Thursday will bring “Olives.” Dorothy] porn, ‘This new burlesque sree Burton in “Be a Violet,” and Hudler, | paid ‘to he a ex abInAtIC of patri sORN BARRYMORE «bia 1 ‘ Frank le Ntaeo! 5 HARRIS rd TEE A is " : others in the cast are Frankie Ni ° neiudie a Smashing el : ‘Ob x ARK that Bill happens to be natural and humorous—that is, human, in “The False } F hal James liwl, Kdward Moderat i it . Wes Telvisible Foe woaaed ve ae — One cine aa strikes me, after seeing “Lightin’” @ second time, 18] 44 M~DNIGHT ROMANCE” tty | Powerd “and Edna Wort Mar 17—DUNLEGQUE WONDER SHOW, with Geo. F. Murphy and Primrone Semon 4“ Thelnvisibletoe |e witty. ROBIN HOOD | formance = The Play of Stein and Philips. The screen jin the that Bill seems {be a curiously detached creature, not unlike a stray dog FILM PLAY AT STRAND|' a z ; ! ae a “MIDNIGHT MAID, Alte Toran Gorden se j Thousand Thri BOHEMIAN GIRL} i calendar. Everybody liked him; he was really helpful in the way of|fodger.” The change of Dill 0D|Yapmanies yi eee ony TAREE FACES EAST] ee ne PLYMOUTH 24% Mar “Just what the charm of the oharacter is I don't know, unless it 18]theatre will show Henry B. Walthall] |” dents and nedy scenes, Am that wags its tall at strangers and then goes its own way Even when Bill's wife kisses him after the trial of a divorce sult, he laughs off the art will be seen at the Anita Ste doed vessel, She secures a position piter Weng: Inrown into arian, jn a fashionable summer resort and k “Bill Jones,” explained Mr. Bacon, in his modest way, “was twenty | insists she is nothing but a serving|Gampbell, Buster Perry, Vi Perry and . years in the making. I played him for a good many years in a etock com maid Aa hor. Tat to a p way the Sherman 8 aters DANCE PAL AC it pee ; > e hotel at night to ta dip pany at the Alcazar Theatre in San Francisco, When If was given a part| [rom (he nove : [nthe surf. On one of these ocen. | «BETTER OLE” ON SCREEN that seemed a bit lacking in character the stage director would aay fo|siong she mects a young man, and voting leads to a romance.| AT 81ST STREET THEATRE fe is expected to return. All through the play he keeps algof,| ..“" i sht Romance," al IN OLYMPIC BURLESQUE DANCE PALACE AT THE | Sho" COHAN fin hae Beat aa kiss h i tine tras, thane skittles 1, Strand in "A Midnight Romance, ee Ae way T0-087215 die a sticks to his own ground, the open way of the free, €88, SO.) chotoplay by Lois Weber from a —— : wg Sttarday Afternoon 10: A y lhe , Somehow, he makes one feel that his path is through the woods and along! story by Marion Orth. ‘The Icading| “The Midnight Maidens will ap CLASSES FOR CHILDRE N Evenings at 2.18 IPPODROME | :a PRINCE THERE WAS the streams that speak of life in murmurs heard only by those who know| role is that of a European Princess|pear at the Olympic Theatre ina mi he aye, PUNCH & JUDY the language of nature. This, to my mind, is what Frank Bacon makes|who comes to this country with a|burlesque called buble of the ga a aie ..-VHEATRES | NCH WAL eR Mng nM PT aba, be of Bill Jones. He shakes off worldly things as a dog shakes off water] boatload of refugees from a torpe-|s In the corgi) . | BRONX OPERAHOUSE] | THEBOOK of OB 149TH ST., E OF 3D AVE. |! LYCEUM } PHONE s¥ 8280. *RVELYN HUBBELL he Tente of the Arabs,"* St, oF Mway, Brew OB0, 4 THUR fw Mat, 220. IDADDIESIER BELASCO oi oS ES — Evenings, 25¢ to $1.00 ary >, or’ ‘KY 7 ' this n Wed. Mate., 25¢ & 50c me, ‘Bill-Jones it.’ In ‘M'liss,’ ‘My Pardner,' ‘From Sire to Son,’ and other | pe ew andy. Binds bal . " i, plays produced out there in the old days there was always a Bill-Jones kind |rne’ Village Smithy," the Steal On the serearale set sere Get: rs » bse ae Malina Thur reer 2b tie ge of part, and that part was invariably banded to me, Afterwards 1 played | Topical Review and mi Scpetrear ser Pon Ory argtY tages Bats Mates 39, 80am Fee | FRANCES STARR wit uen! H Bill in small-time vaudeville for a number of years with my wite and| 4,7 oy awn THE MOUSE” — |Will be Tho Metter “Ole,” to be. Week WAnGH To John Cort's Elaborate daughter helping me, In the sketch we had a house with the state-line lowed Thursday by William 8 Mart | Musical’ aaeestee of California and Nevada dividing it, and we got as much fun out of PLAZA THEATRE FILMS in" this situation as the circumstances would permit. When I elaborated the pe Vaudey kal OE sketoh into e play, f had great faith in the character, but little in the play, ‘ Per its fn one nage the Pl iste “GIRLS OF THE U.S. A.” The e have ce Joyce in he oe Ae tor the story was too loosely told to be effective. I carried the thing around | Theatre will SEAMON ‘S| nd "Fatty" Ar AT HURTIG GLOBE. Pre BID Mae Wade tat a0 Hiren Raia Care the Raabe ste ke SANDERSON CAWTHORN CANARY shed Sit” an tat Hardy, Doyle & Dixon, Mi LL LL Ca Bat. at 3.90, Men.” ‘There will also Lion and the Mou: u vino 3 J y Se ae Pie : with me and submitted ft to Winchell Smith at the time T was playing) ees pig. co Hain he is 5 OOi: a ‘IH AVG | ra ye the old druggist in ‘Tho Fortune Hunter.’ Finally, at Los Angeles, one| Mniy tnd ‘Tuemdar; Nessus Fase Pr hige Us A” S WISE F DLS Mole 'Wea, [| asset | Murkee 2 Mowards and other ete . 75 c 6 awn ednes , of the § wi & Sat,, 2.50. gummer, I sold ‘Ligtnin’’ to a moving picture concern for $750, with the ieawa in Thee eee awed a . & Heamon's: Theatre| Ls LOEW's NeW YORK THEATRE | agreement that it would be the next play produced, On the following day, ‘Todd of the Times" and Charlie w Hilton, Ina Hayward, Ba orT : Week dts 9 M p, Fuliet tinkling, Tuneful Melo wa RuUstece WHEDE tie vier p'oking up the morning newspaper, I learned that Winchell Smith was in| Chaplin in “The Cure," Friday and Lorette, Charles Pigg, Roy Peck and = and going over to the hotel where he wa8 stopping I told him I had| Saturday John Bohimar h Wee AER th « st the eterile Loew's America) Row 3! ihe if —= ene The Greatest of All Musics] Shows coaue TATE’S MOTORING, GEN, PibAN gold the old play, He, in turn, told me I had made a mistake, and that “GOING UP” L Bao en a NOWELL ako ful he would like to produce {t. Well, I got the play back, because the motion| they spin are a result of thelr loneliness. They don't mean to tell |les | Ean 'ScuierR 4 "GLORIANNA’ OrheP aut picture man was not ready to produce {t—and that's the whole story they tell ‘em to be entertaining, just as another fellow would play the| PRICED diese, “tet se "Uren Dest Wook PROCKS AND FRILLS." BROOKLYN. “It's like a dream to me,” added Mr, Bacon, pushing back his gray hair | fiddle, Bil] means wetl—that’s all | |] “* “seats Sow ow” sace.* 7% MANHATTAN p% Be a w MLE SONS “just ax T think ihe yarns told by picturesque old fellows lke Bill ar This last phrvse gives you “Lightnin'” in a flagh, thanks to Frenk | ded MANHATTAN (30 abt ; si ii Pers dreams to (hen. These men are alone a great deal, and I believe the yarns Becon, one of the most lovable, bumen actors ou the truly American stage. QuNDAY wore wante work wowpsme "'M** yieat aso Tuc its a’ isola moi wit